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Sandy Gentei Stewart (born 1938) became interested in Zen when he was 16 and heard Alan Watts speak on the radio. At age 29 he heard a radio interview with Joshu Sasaki Roshi and immediately knew he had found his teacher. In 1971 he was ordained as a Rinzai Zen teacher (Osho) and became Vice-Abbot of the Cimarron Zen Center ...

Beate Genko Stolte is a Zen teacher who has practiced Zen for more than 20 years and was priest-ordained in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. She has degrees in business administration and fiscal law. She has lived, practiced, and taught in Zen Buddhist communities in the United States, Switzerland and Germany and visited Japan for Zen Buddhist studies. Stolte ...

Sei’un An Roselyn E. Stone, Ph. D., was born in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada. Since her graduation from the University of Toronto she’s lived in five countries (England, Germany, USA, Japan and Australia) and had three professional lives: YWCA physical director; high school teacher of physical education (with a little math and science for good measure); and tenured professor at ...

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Maurine Myo-on Stuart (March 3, 1922—February 26, 1990), referred to by some as Ma Roshi or Mother Roshi, was a Rinzai Zen teacher and Dharma heir of Soen Nakagawa, although she never completed the formal ceremony of Dharma transmission with him. Rather, he privately endorsed her as a teacher. While she never gave transmission to anyone herself, several prominent teachers ...

Myogen Steve Stücky (1946 — December 31, 2013) was a Sōtō Zen priest who served as Co-Abbot and Central Abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center. He received dharma transmission from Sojun Mel Weitsman in 1993. He also founded Dharma Eye Zen Center in Marin County and combined his work as a temple priest, parent and grandfather with designing gardens. In 2013, ...

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Su Bong (January 7, 1943–July 17, 1994), dharma name Mu Deung Sunim, born See Hoy Liau, was a Soen Sa Nim in the Kwan Um School of Zen — a dharma successor of the late Zen master Seung Sahn, who he received dharma transmission from in October of 1992. He received the transmission name Su Bong, which means “High Mystic ...

Oleg Šuk, Ji do Poep Sa Nim (b. January 26, 1964) (Dharma master) began to practice Zen in 1989 after meeting the legendary Zen Master Seung Sahn who was just visiting and teaching in Prague. In 1990 he establishes The Kwan Um School of Zen of Slovakia. From 1991 he lives with his wife and two children in Košice and they ...

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Joan Sutherland (b. 1954) is the founder of Awakened Life and a Senior Teacher with the Pacific Zen School. She is deeply involved in re-imagining the koan tradition and exploring its relationship to creativity. She holds frequent koan and meditation retreats, and her work appears regularly in Shambhala Sun and Buddhadharma. She lives and teaches in Santa Fe, New Mexico and ...

Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki (October 8, 1870—July 12, 1966) was a Japanese-born scholar of Zen and Japanese culture who essentially introduced the West to Zen and Mahayana Buddhism through his many published works. A lay practitioner of Rinzai Zen—Suzuki ‘s writings influenced such thinkers as Erich Fromm, Carl Jung, Thomas Merton, Karl Jaspers, Arnold Toynbee, Martin Heidegger, Gabriel Marcel, and many ...

Hoitsu Suzuki (b. 1939) is a Soto Zen priest and a Dharma heir of his late father, the famous Shogaku Shunryu Suzuki-roshi. He was born in 1939 the 2nd of four children. As a young man he avid Kendo practitioner. He attended and graduated with a Bachelors degree from Kamazawa University. He became the abbot of Rinsoin temple in Yaizu ...

Shogaku Shunryū Suzuki (鈴木 俊隆, May 18, 1904—December 4, 1971; Dharma name 祥岳俊隆) born Toshitaka Suzuki, was an influential Japanese Soto Zen priest and founder of the San Francisco Zen Center and Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, the first Soto Zen training monastery in the United States. Today, the San Francisco Zen Center and its three practice locations – City Center, ...

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Established in 2009 as a grassroots initiative, Sweeping Zen is a digital archive of information on Zen Buddhism. Featuring in-depth interviews, an extensive database of biographies, news, articles, podcasts, teacher blogs, events, directories and more, this site is dedicated to offering the public a range of views in the sphere of Zen Buddhist thought. We are also endeavoring to continue creating lineage charts for all Western Zen lines, doing our own small part in advancing historical documentation on this fabulous import of an ancient tradition. Come on in with a tea or coffee. You're always bound to find something new.

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